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Letters Patent No. 103,424, dated May 24, 1870.

IMPROVED CLOTHES-DRIER.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of theseme.

To Il whom it Amay concern:

Beit known that I, WILLIAM LIVINGSTON BROWNE,

of Shortsville, Ontario county, in the State of New York, have inventedcertainnew and useful Improvements in Clothes-Drying Machines; and Ihereby declare the following to be a full and exact description thereof,reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming part of thisspecification.

,The nature or essence of my invention consists in the particularconstruction and arrangement of devices fori-ning an improvedclothes-drying machine Or stand, described in the followingspecification, and represented in the drawing, which is a perspectiveview of the machine, showing the standard and four braces, the two rearbraces and their attachments being omitted to render the figure moreclear.

In this drawing- A is the standard Or center, provided 'with a ring atthe top, by which the machine may be hung up to the top` of the room,limb of a tree, or other support.

lo this standard A, the stationary collar .l5 is fastcned with a pin orscrew, with one movable traversing collar, O, below it, and twotraversing collarsD and E, above'it.

These collars have six grooves on their peri pheries parallel to thestandard, to receive the ends ofthe arms F F and braces G G of theframe, which are fitted to the grooves, and perforated for the wires H'H, which pass through the ends of the arms and braces, and lie ingrooves around the collars, tO form screws I I, so that the arms andbraces vibrate freely to Open and close the machine when desired. I

This machine is shown open in the drawing, and, by removing the pins J Jfrom the standard, and moving the upper collar toward the top, themachine may bc closed up into a very small compass, for transportationOr removal out Of the way when not in use.

The clothes to be dried may be hung across the arms, and on the lines KK, which are passed around through the ,ends of the' arms for thatpurpose.

The Outer ends of the upper tier Of arms may be sustained by lines, L L,from the top of the standard to the ends Of the arms..

The drawing shows the lower set of arms tO be the shortest, and the nextabove a little longer, and the upper set the longest-l This constructionallows the clothes on the second line, K, from the bottom to hangOutside Of those on the loweriline, and the clothes on the top line tohang out-side of those on the second line.

This machine may be used to set trays On to dry fruit, and, if trimmedwith green bonghs or trailing villes, will make a fine Christmas tree;and it may be made with such a number of arms in each series as may bedesired. i'

l claim the above-described dryiug-mac11ine,con sisting of a centralstandard, A, with one stationary collar, B, and three movable collars orfulcra, C, D, and E, for the arms and braces Of the machine, when thewhole is constructed, combined, and arranged to Opera-te substantiallyas described. v

W. LIVINGSTON BROWNE.

Witnesses:

` H. E. WOODRUFF,

J. J. DEWELl

